The Thames

by G. E. Mitton

When the present locks were made they were called "pound" locks; a great many of them were opened between 1770 and 1780.

The members of the Conservancy Board go up in their launch several times a year to see that all is in order, and that their officials are doing their duty. Once a year they penetrate beyond Oxford, where the launch cannot go, and they have to take to rowing boats. They are not supposed to preserve the amenities of the river, but only its highway properties. They have no power to remove unsightlinesses, such as hideous advertisement boards; but only obstructions. Yet, in keeping the river free from sewage contamination; by forbidding the casting of refuse into the current from house-boats or elsewhere; by exercising a general jurisdiction, which makes people realise they are not free to amuse themselves to the annoyance of their neighbours—no doubt the amenities are very much more preserved than they would otherwise be.

Stow ends up his account of the river: "And thus, as this fine river is of great use and profit to the city, so the many neat towns and seats on the banks of it make it extraordinary pleasant and delightful. So that the citizens and gentlemen, nay kings, have in the summer time usually taken the air by water; being carried in boats and barges along the Thames, both upward and downward according to their pleasures."

INDEX

• Abbey Hotel, Medmenham, [126]
• Abbey River, [165], [168]
• à Becket, Thomas, [67]
• Aberlash, [74]
• Abingdon, [37]
• Abingdon Abbey, [41]
• Adam, [199]
• Addison, [228]
• Albert Bridge, [223]
• Ankerwyke Park, [157]
• Archbishop Laud, [71]
• Arnold, Dr., of Rugby, [167]
• Arnold, Matthew, [5], [167]
• Arragon, Katherine of, [196]
• Arundel House, [215]
• Athens, [149]
• Bankside, [211]
• Barbour, Geoffrey, [39]
• Barges, [234]
• Barn Elms Park, [228]
• Barrage, [232]
• Barrington Shute, [56]
• Barry, [218]
• Battersea Bridge, [226]
• Baynard's Castle, [213]
• Bell Weir Lock, [159]
• Benson Lock, [59]
• Billingsgate, [210]
• Birds, [17]
• Birinus, [50]
• Bisham Abbey, [112]
• Bisham Church, [111]
• Bishop of Winchester's Palace, [212]
• Bishop's Park, [227]
• Blackfriars Bridge, [213], [214]
• Bloomfield, [224]
• Blount, Sir Arthur, [66]
• Boat Race, [2], [201]
• Boleyn, Anne, [158]
• Bolney Court, [84]
• Borlase, Sir John, [127]
• Boulter's Lock, [128]
• Bourne End, [139]
• Boveney Lock, [150]
• Boyle Farm, [185]
• Bradshaw, [175]
• Braganza, Catherine of, [230]
• Brandenburg House, [229]
• Bray, [152]
• Bray Lock, [151]
• Brent River, [200]
• Brentford, [200]
• Bridges:
  • Battersea, [226]
  • Blackfriars, [213], [214]
  • Charing Cross, [216]
  • Chelsea, [223]
  • Folly, [25]
  • Hammersmith, [229]
  • Lambeth, [221]
  • London,210
  • Old London, [208]
  • Putney, [227]
  • Tower, [210]
  • Walton, [173]
  • Waterloo, [216]
• Brightwell Barrow, [49]
• Buckingham, Duke of, [137]
• Burford Bridge, [38]
• Burney, Miss, [143], [199]
• Burton, Sir Richard, [204]
• Bushey Park, [181]
• Cæsar, Julius, [172]
• "Camp-shedding," 238
• Canning, George, [204]
• Carfax Monument, [36]
• Carlyle, [224]
• Caversham, [71]
• Charing Cross Bridge, [216]
• Charles I., [65], [98], [180]
• Charles II., [127]
• Chaucer, [213]
• Chelsea Bridge, [223]
• Chelsea Embankment, [224], [225]
• Chertsey, [168]
• Chertsey Abbey, [168]
• Cherwell, [26]
• Chestnut Sunday, [181]
• Chiswick, [201]
• Chiswick House, [204]
• Christ's Hospital, Abingdon, [40]
• Cleeve Lock, [59]
• Cleopatra's Needle, [216]
• Clieveden, [136]
• Clifton Hampden, [45]
• Climenson, Mrs., [96]
• Coln River, [159]
• Compleat Angler Hotel, Marlow, [107]
• Congreve, [228]
• Conway, Field-Marshal, [102]
• Cookham, [138]
• Cooper's Hill, [146], [157]
• Cornish, J. C., [85]
• Countess of Nottingham, [195]
• Countess of Suffolk, [193]
• Cowley, [5], [6], [169], [174]
• Cowley Stakes, [172]
• Cranmer, [221]
• Cromwell, [55], [180]
• Crowmarsh, [54]
• Cuckoo Weir, [149]
• Culham, [42]
• Custom House, [210]
• Damer, Mrs., [99]
• Danesfield, [124]
• Datchet, [146]
• Day, Thomas, [82]
• Day's Lock, [47]
• Denham, [5], [24]
• Denham, Sir John, [146]
• Despencer, Lord Le, [126]
• Ditton House, [185]
• Donne, Dr., [190]
• Dorchester, [49]
• Dorchester Abbey, [51]
• Dowgate, [213]
• D'Oyley, Robert, [53]
• D'Oyley, Sir Cope, [103]
• Drayton, [4], [5], [22]
• Dredging, [233]
• Druce, Claridge G., [32], [62]
• Duc d'Aumale, [192]
• Duchess of York, [171]
• Dudley, Robert, [196]
• Duke of Buckingham, [137]
• Duke of Gloucester, [192]
• Duke of Marlborough, [150]
• Duke of York, [172]
• Duke's Meadows, [201]
• Durham House, [216]
• Dyers' Company, [122]
• Earl of Essex, [196]
• Earl of Leicester, [215]
• Edward IV., [213]
• Edward VI., [180]
• Edward Plantagenet, [113]
• Edward the Confessor, [140]
• Eel-pie Island, [191]
• Eights, The, [28]
• Eliot, George, [227]
• Embankment, The, [214]
• Empress Maud, [67]
• Essex, Earl of, [196]
• Essex House, [215]
• Eton, [7], [148]
• Evelyn, [229]
• Exe River, [175]
• Fair Maid of Kent, [54]
• Faringford, Hugh, [69]
• Fawley Court, [101], [102]
• Ferry Hotel, Cookham, [138]
• Fielding, Henry, [8], [190]
• Fingest, [103]
• Fishing, [236]
• Fleet River, [213]
• Floods, [217]
• Flora of Oxfordshire, [62]
• Folly Bridge, [25]
• Forbury Public Garden, Reading, [70]
• Fox, Charles James, [169], [204]
• Frogmill, [125]
• Fulham Palace, [228]
• Fuller, [67], [152], [198]
• Garrick's Villa, [183]
• Gaunt, John of, [67], [216]
• Gaveston, Piers, [54]
• Gay, [190], [193]
• General description, [9] ff
• George III., [98]
• George IV., [98], [172]
• George Hotel, Bray, [154]
• George Hotel, Wargrave, [82]
• Gloucester, Duke of, [192]
• Goring, [57]
• Goring Church, [61]
• Gray, [5]
• Great Hall, Westminster, [219]
• Great Marlow, [106]
• Great Western Railway, [8]
• Greenhill, [60]
• Greenlands, [103]
• Greenwich Palace, [6]
• Grey, Lady Jane, [198]
• Gwynne, Nell, [127]
• Halliford, [175]
• Ham House, [191], [193]
• Hambleden, [103]
• Hammersmith Bridge, [229]
• Hampton, [177]
• Hampton Court, [6], [178]
• Hampton Green, [182]
• Hardwicke House, [65]
• Harp Hill, [48]
• Hartslock Woods, [62]
• Hedsor Church, [138]
• Henley, [97]
• Henley Regatta, [3], [100]
• Henry I., [42], [141], [195]
• Henry V., [195]
• Henry VI., [169]
• Henry VII., [195]
• Henry VIII., [68], [158], [178]
• Hoby, Sir Thomas, [111]
• Hogarth, [6], [183], [204]
• Holme Park, [75]
• Home Park, [145]
• Hook, Theodore, [184]
• Horton, [158]
• Hotels, [18]
• House-boats, [235]
• Houses of Parliament, [218]
• Howard, Katherine, [198]
• Hurley, [116]
• Hurlingham Club, [227]
• Hurst Park Racecourse, [182]
• Icknield Street, [59]
• Iffley, [29]
• Isleworth, [197]
• James II., [221]
• James Stuart, [143]
• Joan, [54]
• John, [78], [156], [213]
• Johnson, Dr., [183]
• Jones, Inigo, [199]
• Juxon, [221]
• Kelmscott Press, [230]
• Kempenfelt, Admiral, [120]
• Kew Gardens, [199]
• Kew Observatory, [197]
• Kew Palace, [6]
• Kingis Quair, [144]
• King's Stone, [187]
• Kingston, [186]
• Kingston Rowing Club, [186]
• Kit-Kat Club, [228]
• Kneller, Sir Godfrey, [190], [191], [228]
• Lady Place, [116]
• Laleham, [161], [167]
• Lambeth Bridge, [221]
• Lambeth Palace, [221]
• Laud, Archbishop, [71], [221], [228]
• Leicester, Earl of, [215]
• Leicester House, [215]
• Leland, [78]
• Llyn-din, [212]
• Locks, [239]
  • Bell Weir, [159]
  • Benson, [59]
  • Boulter's, [128]
  • Boveney, [150]
  • Bray, [157]
  • Cleeve, [59]
  • Marsh, [102]
  • Teddington, [187]
  • Temple, [115]
• Loddon River, [92]
• London and South Western Railway, [9]
• London Bridge, [210]
• London Stone, [159]
• Long Ditton, [185]
• Long Mead, [157]
• Louis Philippe, [192]
• Lower Hope, [149]
• Lower Mall, [230]
• Macaulay, [120]
• Magna Charta Island, [155]
• Maidenhead, [132]
• Mapledurham House, [65], [66]
• Marble Hill, [193]
• Marlborough, Duke of, [98], [150]
• Marryat, [230]
• Marsh Lock, [102]
• Medmenham Abbey, [125]
• Merchant Taylors' School, [213]
• Milton, [5], [7], [158]
• Mole River, [184]
• Molesey Lock, [182]
• Molesey Regatta, [184]
• Mongewell, [56]
• Monkey Island, [150]
• Monmouth House, [225]
• Montfichet, [213]
• Moore, Thomas, [185], [188]
• More, Sir Thomas, [225]
• Morris, William, [230]
• Mortlake, [202]
• Mount Lebanon, [192]
• Naval Volunteer Training Ship, [214]
• New Cut, [27]
• Northumberland Avenue, [218]
• Northumberland House, [218]
• Nottingham, Countess of, [195]
• Nuneham Courtney, [35]
• Oatlands Park, [171], [174]
• Obstructions, [234]
• Old Deer Forest, [197]
• Old London Bridge, [208]
• Old Windsor, [146]
• Orleans House, [191]
• Oxford, [7]
• Oxford Meadows, [32]
• Pang River, [64]
• Pangbourne, [63]
• Park Place, [102]
• Parr, Catherine, [225]
• Penton Hook, [161]
• Pepys, [229]
• Phyllis Court, [101], [102]
• Pope, [5], [6], [145], [190], [193], [204]
• Pope's Villa, [189]
• Prince de Joinville, [192]
• Prince Henry, [193]
• Princess Elizabeth, [225]
• Puddle Dock, [213]
• Punting competition, [170]
• Putney Bridge, [227]
• Quarry Woods, [109]
• Queen Anne, [192]
• Queen Caroline, [229]
• Queen Eleanor, [213]
• Queen Elizabeth, [70], [113], [240]
• Queen Mary, [180]
• Queen Maud, [54]
• Queenhithe, [213]
• Radley College Boat-house, [34]
• Ranelagh, [223], [228]
• Raven's Ait, [186]
• Ray Mead Hotel, Maidenhead, [135]
• Reading Abbey, [67]
• Reading Castle, [70]
• Red Lion Hotel, Henley, [98]
• Richard II., [195]
• Richard III., [213]
• Richmond, [194]
• Richmond Palace, [6], [195]
• Rivers:
  • Abbey, [165], [168]
  • Brent, [200]
  • Coln, [159]
  • Exe, [175]
  • Fleet, [213]
  • Loddon, [92]
  • Mole, [184]
  • Pang, [64]
  • Thame, [52]
  • Wandle, [227]
  • Wey, [173]
• Robsart, Amy, [196]
• Rodney, Admiral, [175]
• Romney Island, [148]
• Rose Garden, Sonning, [72]
• Rossetti, [227]
• Royal Hospital, Chelsea, [223]
• Runney Mead, [156]
• Rupert, Prince, [201]
• St. Anne's Hill, [170]
• St. Helen's Nunnery, Abingdon, [40]
• St. Mary Overies, [210]
• St. Patrick's Stream, [92]
• St. Saviour's, [210]
• St. Thomas's Hospital, [221]
• Salisbury House, [216]
• Sandford, [33]
• Savoy, The, [216]
• Scotland Yard, [218]
• Seagulls, [218]
• Seymour, Thomas, [225]
• Shelley, [106]
• Shenstone, [99]
• Shepperton, [170], [175]
• Shiplake, [95]
• Shrewsbury House, [225]
• Sinodun Hill, [48]
• Skindle's Hotel, Maidenhead, [133]
• Smith, Rt. Hon. W. H., [103]
• Smith, Sydney, [78]
• Smollett, [225]
• Somerset, Lord-Protector, [198], [215]
• Somerset House, [214]
• Sonning, [72]
• Spenser, [5], [213], [215]
• Staines, [159]
• Star and Garter Hotel, Richmond, [194]
• Steele, [228]
• Stephen, [54]
• Stokenchurch, [103]
• Stow, [239]
• Strawberry Hill, [188]
• Streatley, [57]
• Sunbury, [175]
• Surbiton, [186]
• Surley Hill, [150]
• Sutton Courtney, [43]
• Sutton Pool, [43]
• Swan Hotel, Thames Ditton, [184]
• Swans, [121]
• Swift, [190], [193]
• Syon House, [197]
• Tagg's Island, [182]
• Taplow, [132]
• Tate Gallery, [223]
• Teddington Lock, [187]
• Temple, [214]
• Temple Island, [101]
• Temple Lock, [115]
• Temple Mill, [115]
• Tennyson, [95], [191]
• Terry, Ellen, [166]
• Thame, The, [52]
• Thames Conservancy, [233]
• Thames, derivation of, [4]
• Thames Ditton, [184]
• Thames Gardens, [19]
• Thomson, [6], [137], [230]
• Thorney Island, [222]
• Torpids, The, [29]
• Tow-path, [237]
• Tower, [210]
• Tower Bridge, [210], [211]
• Tower Royal, [213]
• Turner, [173], [191], [226], [230]
• Twickenham, [191]
• Twickenham Reach, [188]
• Upper Hope, [149]
• Upper Mall, [230]
• Upper Thames Sailing Club, [139]
• Vanbrugh, [228]
• Vauxhall Bridge, [223]
• Vintners' Company, [122]
• Walbrook, [208]
• Walbrook Wharf, [212]
• Walker, Frederick, [153]
• Wallingford, [53]
• Walpole, Horace, [6], [183], [189], [228]
• Walton Bridge, [173]
• Walton Church, [174]
• Walton, Izaak, [147]
• Wandle River, [227]
• Wandsworth, [227]
• Warbeck, Perkin, [196]
• Wargrave, [80]
• Warwick, "King Maker," 113
• Waterloo Bridge, [216]
• Watermen, [206]
• Weirs, [239]
• Westminster Abbey, [222]
• Westminster Bridge, [220]
• Westminster Palace, [6]
• Wey River, [171]
• Weybridge, [170], [171]
• Whitchurch, [63]
• Whitehall, [218]
• Whitehall Palace, [6]
• White Hart Hotel, Sonning, [74]
• Whitehill, [60]
• Wigod, [53]
• William the Conqueror, [53], [141]
• William III., [141], [180]
• Winchester House, [225]
• Windsor Castle, [140]
• Wittenham, Little, [47]
• Wittenham Woods, [47]
• Wolsey, [178]
• Worcester House, [216]
• Wordsworth, [220]
• Wotton, Sir Henry, [147]
• Wren, Sir Christopher, [181], [182]
• Wyatt, Sir Thomas, [210]
• York, Duchess of, [171]
• York, Duke of, [172]
• York House, [191], [217]

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Sketch Map of the THAMES from OXFORD to LONDON

MAP ACCOMPANYING "THE THAMES" BY MORTIMER MENPES AND G. E. MITTON. PUBLISHED BY A. AND C. BLACK, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON